Work Starts on Enerkem-Greenfield Advanced Energy Research Facility in Canada

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Privately held Enerkem Incorporated (Montreal, Quebec) and joint venture partner GreenField Ethanol (Toronto, Ontario) have formed Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels and have started construction of the venture's Advanced Energy Research facility in Edmonton, Alberta.

The $10 million pilot-scale plant will test the conversion of various types of industrial and municipal waste into transportation fuels and chemicals. Construction of the pilot plant is expected to be completed in March 2010, followed by the construction of the $70 million, waste-to-ethanol plant that is expected to break ground during the second quarter of 2010.

The plant will receive 100,000 tons of municipal solid waste through a 25-year agreement with the City of Edmonton. The facility will gasify the waste and produce 36 million liters (9.5 million gallons) per year of second-generation fuel ethanol.

The facility will be located adjacent to the City of Edmonton Waste Management Center and go into commercial operation by early 2011.

The company has proven the technology at the demonstration plant in Westbury, Quebec, which went into operation in December 2008. This plant produces 5 million liters (1.3 million gallons) per year of ethanol from discarded treated utility poles.

Enerkem is also conducting feasibility studies to construct a 20 million-gallon-per-year waste-to-ethanol plant in Mississippi, construction of which could start early next year.

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